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Poco X3 NFC with LineageOS.
200,-โฌ price, excellent photo quality if paired with fitting GCAM mod (AGC) plus config. Powerful enough as daily driver, privacy-frieendly enough after some simple changes, runs everything I need & if it drops & breaks (2 kids at home...) it's an affordable loss (I'm diligent about backups).
OnePlus 11 Pro, highly customised UI, rooted, and propped up security.
Will never touch an iPhone with their clumsy unintuitive OS, nor an Android where I can't get root access to remove all the unnecessary clutter and harden the OS.
OnePlus 8 Pro but I'm thinking about switching to Pixel 7 Pro, or 8 if I wait long enough.
Does anyone have any experience with Pixels? Are they worth it?
I adore my Pixel. I jumped on a Pixel 3a many years ago, and it was an incredible phone. There was a brief switch to an iPhone 11 when the Pixel 3a finally bit the dust (I am an abusive phone owner... it had been stepped on, dropped a half dozen or more times sans case, dropped in a lake, skittered across rocks, etc. It finally died because I applied a little pressure to a crack in the screen like an idiot...) but that didn't last long. I jumped right back to the Pixel 6 within a year of having the iPhone.
My main reasons for use are the incredible support, getting constant updates to the OS from Google, and the camera. It is a smooth and pleasant experience all around. I don't think I'll ever own another android phone. If I did switch to a different manufacturer, I'd almost definitely run some kind of custom ROM on it.
I've used Pixels (and the Nexus line before that) for nearly 9 years and overall they've been great phones. Pixel 4 was really the only dud for me, but I haven't used them all, generally buy a used one every 2 years or so.
Right now I'm using a Pixel 5 which I like, and Mrs tomatobeard has a Pixel 6 which I'm a tad jealous of. Pixels have great Android support/updates, and also have good support in the custom ROM and modding community. My favorite phone ever was a Pixel 2 XL, and when Google stopped supporting it, I switched to Lineage os and kept rocking it for a year or more after.
Samsung Galaxy S22. Wanted it to be an upgrade from my dying OnePlus 6, but smaller. Not much choice for small, but beefy phone.
Still rocking the galaxy S9+.
My original one died a year ago and I tried the pixel 6, s22+, Asus Zenfone 9, and ROG phone 2, but nothing came close to being as nice to use, (no headphone jack, buggy software, little customization) so I got another s9+!
Oneplus 6T with Ubuntu Touch/LineageOS Dualboot
Google pixel for the following reasons:
Smart insights via Google assistant:
Bill due soon reminders via Google assistant. It can read my email and remind me of upcoming bills, their amount, who it's too, and when it's due. Sends a notification to the phone.
Finance watchlist notification: at the end of each market day it will send me a notification just showing me how my watchlist performed for the day
Phone:
Call screening, business calls, spam, and robo
Hold for me feature.
Phone trees visual
Visual voicemail - live transcripts
Google translate:
Live translation of audio
Translate any sign or text via Google lens
Search visually via Google lens
Customization
Google assistant integration in the phone. Call and text people, reduce volume, paused audio, set volume, google search, turn on flash light etc. You can control features of your phone with your voice. It's fantastic.
It's a really smart, smart phone.
pixel 6 pro in order to use graphene os
Been using pixels since the first one, and I liked the 6 so much I bought a second one just for GrapheneOS
Still rocking my Oneplus 7Pro but thinking I might want to upgrade to the new Google Pixel 8 when it comes out. I like stock Android and Google phones have been pretty nice from what I've seen and from the little amount of time I've used and played with them in stores. I like the ability to install a privacy focused rom like GrapheneOS too. But the only thing now holding me back from deciding on the Pixel 8 is the temperature reader like that's something I know I won't be using and I don't want to be paying for that when I know I won't be using that feature.
Using Xiaomi 12T Pro running xiaomi.eu rom on it. At first I didn't like their ui but now I think it's pretty good. I used to go for AOSP roms but I'm getting used to MIUI now.
I don't want to install nothing that isn't the default stock though, with some changes in this vs, but stock.
In the last I'd instal a custom rom as soon as I got a new phone (Cyanogenmod or wtv name they came with after), but after 4 years or so of doing this I noticed that my pictures looked like crap when compared to photos with the stock rom.
Apparently it was due to drivers and some of the drivers not being public. At the time whenever I went on vacations, is change back to stock to have the best photos possible. But I don't really feel like doing that all over again.
I've got the OnePlus Nord 2 Pac-Man Edition running OxygenOS (Android) and I plan to use it as long as possible before switching to Fairphone eventually
Android. Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra.
Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 5G, I've been using Xiaomi for 6 years now, I always had really bad phones until i bought a Redmi 6A, Really good phone and I've used this brand since
Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ because refurbished it's affordable, has 256GB standard storage and a micro SD slot. Oh and 12GB of RAM. I also have a Tab s7+ and buds 2 and like how they work together. I'm not opposed to iOS, in fact I use a MacBook pro daily, but if those stingy fucks won't start offering decent storage on base model phones, I'm not interested.
iPhone 14 pro max.
Upgrade from iPhone X that I bought 4 years ago? I want my phone to be stupidly simple and iPhone has always done that for me. I use my phone for everything and barely use my computer anymore so I went all in on it.
Stock Android, Galaxy S21.
I wanted a smaller footprint phone with wireless charging, if not for the last part I'd go for Asus Zenfone 8.
I'm planning to switch to Zenfone 10 when it comes out this summer.
s8+ cuz i loved the curves, /e/OS cuz that was the only one fully functional with my model
Nothing Phone 1. Using it because looks amazing
Google Pixel 7 Pro with Google's Android. I've always used Nexus and Pixel phones because on my daily driver I want the stock Android experience with no vendor skins or bloatware, as well as regular system updates and security patches.
Nice!
I run a oneplus one, with lineageOS 18 and magisk. I am able to do banking, UPI(a quick form of banking in my country), document management(digilocker, for official govt issued documents), social media, etc.
It's slow sometimes but if you can ensure it doesn't heat up, it's a really good setup.
It's a hand-me-down, one of the best handmedowns anyone could want
I got an S20FE because the screen on my s8+ was smashed to hell. I like the size, flat screen, it was relatively cheap at the time ~$500, it has expandable storage, a high end chipset, and 120hz screen. Overall, I love this phone, have no regrets buying it. Hoping I can hold onto it for a few more years haha
S tier phone, my only complaint is that the bootloader is locked down and downward facing speaker. Next phone I buy will be able to be de-googled.
The battery life is head and shoulders above 99% of the market, oled is a killer feature, so is 120 hz.
I have a Poco x3 NFC because it's cheap for the hardware it delivers and I have no money to buy a Pixel Phone ..it runs Lineage OS with microg to degoogle it
using galaxy note 20. I upgraded to this from a note 9. once I started using the stylus I can't go back now. also can't really upgrade to anything because nothing takes an SD card anymore. maybe there will be a leap in phone case technology that incorporates SD readers in the case and I can feel comfortable getting a new phone in a year or two.
Galaxy S23, because I use Android for 13 years now (no Apple devices for me) and it is one of the few smaller devices. Also great battery life, performance (finally Snapdragon in Europe) and very long update support.
All of my mobile devices use some Linux based operating system. I have a PinePhone running Mobian, a moto g7 play running LineageOS, and a Samsung Galaxy Tab s6e also running LineageOS.
I would prefer a GNU/Linux operating system like Debian to Android as I feel I have more freedom and power with a traditional GNU/Linux system, although I have come to accept that ungoogled Android operating systems can be just as good if the proprietary Google services and proprietary apps are avoided. I'd like to give the PinePhone another try as daily driver especially since Debian 12 has been released.
Edit: As for Apple, being locked out of installing your own apps from outside the Apple market is reason enough to avoid iOS. As a free software user I don't think any perceived security or privacy benefits justify the massive decrease in freedom. I also would not say Apple is merely "mildly annoying" https://stallman.org/apple.html
Samsung s10+ and I bought it so I could flash lineageOS on it. I only exclusively buy phones that can handle Lineage now. I'll rock this one until it dies or the battery gets too degraded and then buy another lineage comparable phone and continue the cycle. Each phone usually lasts around 4-5 years.